It seems that my understanding of deferred actions was muddled: I confused render_deferred with render_then_call. I will try out deferred actions to see how the application behaves.
Thanks all. - Ahsan / highandwild On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:59 AM, Kyle Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Take a look at JRuby - it uses real threads, and shouldn't have this > problem (I think). > > -Kyle > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Ahsan Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Michael. > > > > Deferred actions are out of the question, since I need to make > synchronous > > calls to the Web Service. > > > > EventMachine sounds interesting - I will try it out. > > > > Ahsan / highandwild > > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 9:23 PM, Michael Klishin > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> 2008/9/17 Ahsan Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > My question is: is there a better solution with Merb ? Would it better > >> > to > >> > write a tiny merb app that provided a rest interface to my app and > >> > interfaced with the soap web service ? But would Merb, which > presumably > >> > uses > >> > green threads, face the same problem with slow system calls ? > >> > >> 1. Deferred actions. > >> 2. Consider writing EventMachine based soap client that is asyc and > >> thus does not block. It can use incoming xml/json requests. > >> The problem with blocking and HTTP is, it hurts every time you try to > >> do something async via HTTP. > >> -- > >> MK > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "merb" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/merb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
